..In conclusion, aspirin should only be given for primary and secondary prevention in the elderly after a comprehensive evaluation of an individual patient's thrombotic and haemorrhagic risk has been conducted...

D-dimer: a characteristic of the coagulation state of each patient with chronic atrial fibrillation

..In order to answer such a question, it has to be established if the D-dimer level in a given patient is characteristic of such a patient (stable over time) if also fluctuating with time (and useless to characterise the patient)...

..To assess the interest of a second computed tomography (CT) scan of the brain during hospitalization of stroke patients in an internal medicine department and study the characteristics of these patients...

Effect of renal function on the pharmacokinetics of enoxaparin and consequences on dose adjustment

..Conversely, clopidogrel has no effect on prostaglandin metabolism. The aim of this study was to prospectively investigate the effect of aspirin and clopidogrel on arterial functional properties in CHF patients treated with ACEI...

High frequency of detection of human papillomaviruses associated with epidermodysplasia verruciformis in children with psoriasis

..ADVANTAGES AND RISKS OF ANTICOAGULANTS: Treatment with anticoagulants is the only treatment that has demonstrated its efficacy in reducing the risks of thromboembolism, however there is a risk of haemorrhage...

Risks versus benefits of NSAIDs including aspirin in myocarditis: a review of the evidence from animal studies

..8; 95% confidence interval, 2.73-60.0). In this special population of frail elderly patients with multiple comorbidities and polypharmacy, we demonstrated the main impact of genetic factors on warfarin response...